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English is weird
Orkboy:
--- Quote from: LTK on 11 Feb 2015, 08:56 ---There's a lot that can change about what the sentence implies but that does not at all change what it means. :wink:
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Implication is meaning, though. If someone bumps you and says "excuse me," then it's all cool. If someone bumps you and says it like this, someone's getting punched.
Kugai:
--- Quote from: looktall on 11 Feb 2015, 17:48 ---and if it's one of these?
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Well, at least it doesn't go at a Snails pace. :claireface:
Is it cold in here?:
“English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.” -- E. B. White
Akima:
I was wondering the other day how the word "drone" ever got attached to pilotless aircraft. After all, most of the bees you see flying about are not drones, but workers.
The Seldom Killer:
I think it's closer to the more modern usage of office or industrial workers who serve to endlessly repeat actions or processes with little to no intellectual input into their work. I.e. When Smithers describes Homer Simpson as one of the drones from Sector C. Drones, being unmanned, can't take any overriding decisions not pre-programmed into them and can only do what they are told to do.
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